Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's one like that except a lot smaller with little red berries that grow off it in the spring . |
| 2 | Put any combination of any soft fruits you like into the rumtopf and cover each layer with rum or brandy , so that the fruit is thoroughly soaked , and then forget about it until the winter . |
| 3 | We cry for it in the night , for this perfect union . |
| 4 | Young men leap past us from the roof above , splashing into the water to catch up with their canoes , beer bottles held aloft . |
| 5 | We lead more private lives today than ever before , a defence perhaps against the masses who press against us in the tubes , in the office , at school . |
| 6 | A brilliant officer with more than twenty commendations , he had grown to believe he was omnipotent ; and when Mathews refused to tell him the names of his accomplices , saying it was more than his life was worth , Drury , obsessed with clearing up another case , offered him a deal : make a statement that three men whose names I will give you were your accomplices , testify against them in the witness-box , and in return no charges will be brought against you , and we 'll come to an arrangement about the reward money offered by the Post Office . |
| 7 | While each of the principal lacunae is developing , a tracheal branch and a nerve grow into it from the base of the wing , the lacunae apparently offering the paths of least resistance . |
| 8 | ‘ You are a good officer , Merymose , ’ he said at last , ‘ and although I disagree with you about the capability of our Medjays , I respect your judgment . |
| 9 | I suggest to them at the beginning of each session that they will learn about a different existence from any they may already have experienced . |
| 10 | These may in turn be sub-divided ; goods possessed may comprise either the results of private purchase or goods allocated by the state , while goods not possessed tend to fall into two categories : first , those we encounter as material forms , in particular the built environment , the goods of our acquaintances or those in the high street shop , and secondly , goods we do not experience directly , but which appear to us through the media — for example in television , magazines and advertising . |
| 11 | He tries to guess what you say to him from the vowels . |
| 12 | It 's what they all say to me in the end . |
| 13 | When the little ones squeeze past me in the Superette I give their mops the chaste old tousle . |
| 14 | Will serving dishes , cutlery , table linen be kept in the kitchen or is there space for them near the dining table ? |
| 15 | We make them at just under a pound but what the record companies charge for them in the shops is up to them |
| 16 | Take Nosey and the spare horse , then wait for me at the crossroads . |
| 17 | After that , wait for me at the corner of the street . ’ |
| 18 | Wait for me in the office . |
| 19 | So the black-backed gulls wait for them in the air in front of the cliffs , wheeling and circling on the up-draught created as the wind , blowing in from the sea , is deflected upwards . |
| 20 | And it 's erm it 's so oppressive and we really worry about it with the children . |
| 21 | Do n't wither on the sterile sidewalks of Paris , he exhorted , ‘ come and paint with me on the heath , in the potato field , come and walk with me behind the plough and the shepherd , come and sit with me , looking into the fire — let the storm that blows across the heath blow through you . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ If you wish to sit up talking with Claudine , however , or walk with her in the moonlight … ’ |
| 23 | Ice floes circulate with it across the Pole from eastern Siberia toward Ellesmere Island , Greenland , and out into the north Atlantic Ocean , mostly along the east Greenland coast . |
| 24 | And I would rush to the window and look down and see you turning the corner to cross the square below , or walk round it to the hotel door . |
| 25 | You walk to it along the foot of the gorge , through tunnels at one point , and then climb about twelve pitches that are never harder than HVS . |
| 26 | We listen to them in the car . |
| 27 | He even had the amplitude to take a glass of port with Mr Joseph Robinson and talk as well as listen to him about the Battle of the Nile . |
| 28 | ( a ) Meetings and their conduct Whatever may have been agreed as to the taking of decisions by unanimous or majority vote , as much a matter of good management as of good faith is the need to ensure that all relevant information is given to all the partners before a vote is taken : the requisite majority of partners should not purport to take decisions and act on them behind the backs of the minority unless such has been expressly authorised or the need for immediate action precludes the convening of a partners ' meeting ; and even then there should be no delay before all partners are acquainted with the circumstances and invited to ratify any decision taken in their name . |
| 29 | Just the same as you can accept the fact that somebody says to you that I can not really afford your windows , right , just the same as when you first speak to them on the phone , you can say oh sorry , sorry to bother you and put the phone down because it said you |
| 30 | You speak to me like the stepbrother speaks to all the family . |